Famous faces born along the Great West Way
The Great West Way is a popular area for celebrities to reside in. George Clooney has a mansion in Sonning, Orlando Bloom lived in Henley on Thames where Phillip Schofield is still a resident, Terry Pratchett lived in Wiltshire... there’s just too many to list. What makes the Great West Way even better is our star-studded ties who were born along the way from royalty to internationally acclaimed actors and authors.
By Contista Media
Feb 27, 2023 · 6 min read
Famous faces born along the Great West Way
The Great West Way is a popular area for celebrities to reside in. George Clooney has a mansion in Sonning, Orlando Bloom lived in Henley on Thames where Phillip Schofield is still a resident, Terry Pratchett lived in Wiltshire... there’s just too many to list. What makes the Great West Way even better is our star-studded ties who were born along the way from royalty to internationally acclaimed actors and authors.
By Contista Media
Feb 27, 2023 · 6 min read
Introducing: Marion Abraham
Marion Abraham is a painter who investigates inner workings of the self. Embracing a fiercely tangible approach to the medium, Abraham infuses subversive qualities with traditional painting techniques to execute dynamic compositions, focussing on romantic renderings of the body and the landscape. Guided by feminist instinct and a dark sense of humour, she melds quixotic and escapist notions, familiar clichés and suggestive language with the muddiness of the natural world. Through these thematic touchstones, she navigates ideas of the soul, reimagines power structures and centres the valorising of care.
By sullivanstrumpf
Apr 26, 2023 · 2 min read
Introducing: Marion Abraham
Marion Abraham is a painter who investigates inner workings of the self. Embracing a fiercely tangible approach to the medium, Abraham infuses subversive qualities with traditional painting techniques to execute dynamic compositions, focussing on romantic renderings of the body and the landscape. Guided by feminist instinct and a dark sense of humour, she melds quixotic and escapist notions, familiar clichés and suggestive language with the muddiness of the natural world. Through these thematic touchstones, she navigates ideas of the soul, reimagines power structures and centres the valorising of care.
By sullivanstrumpf
Apr 26, 2023 · 2 min read
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Hopper, Kennedy & Sage Estate: Two-Day Auction 22 & 23 September 2022
Charlton Hall is pleased to offer the collection of Dr. C.G. Hopper (1925-2013) and his wife, Mary Ellen Davis Hopper (1945-2017),of Monroe, North Carolina.
By Charlton Hall Auctioneers
Aug 18, 2022 · 3 min read
Hopper, Kennedy & Sage Estate: Two-Day Auction 22 & 23 September 2022
Charlton Hall is pleased to offer the collection of Dr. C.G. Hopper (1925-2013) and his wife, Mary Ellen Davis Hopper (1945-2017),of Monroe, North Carolina.
By Charlton Hall Auctioneers
Aug 18, 2022 · 3 min read
Documentary FRPS Panel - Simon Street FRPS
My local London racecourses were founded on serving a Victorian social hierarchy from ‘Punters’ to ‘Owning Classes’.
By Documentary Group, Royal Photographic Society
Sep 1, 2022 · 6 min read
Documentary FRPS Panel - Simon Street FRPS
My local London racecourses were founded on serving a Victorian social hierarchy from ‘Punters’ to ‘Owning Classes’.
By Documentary Group, Royal Photographic Society
Sep 1, 2022 · 6 min read
Vietnam 2 Soldiers, 2 Artists, 2 Journeys: Then & Now
From helicopters and hand grenades to watercolors and canvases, two Tennessee artists and veterans have come together for a one-of-a-kind show highlighting their visual interpretations of Vietnam. David Wright’s sketches and photographs from his tour in 1965 combine with Chuck Creasy’s modern watercolors for the exhibit Vietnam: 2 Soldiers, 2 Artists, 2 Journeys Then & Now.
By Customs House Museum & Cultural Center
Jun 29, 2022 · 7 min read
Vietnam 2 Soldiers, 2 Artists, 2 Journeys: Then & Now
From helicopters and hand grenades to watercolors and canvases, two Tennessee artists and veterans have come together for a one-of-a-kind show highlighting their visual interpretations of Vietnam. David Wright’s sketches and photographs from his tour in 1965 combine with Chuck Creasy’s modern watercolors for the exhibit Vietnam: 2 Soldiers, 2 Artists, 2 Journeys Then & Now.
By Customs House Museum & Cultural Center
Jun 29, 2022 · 7 min read
Filming locations and iconic destinations from: Bridgerton
The glamorous locations of Netflix’s Bridgerton offers a new way to see Britain. Stroll around a pleasure garden, call on a castle or take a carriage ride, as we uncover some of the new Bridgerton experiences available as part of your Dream Escape.
By Contista Media
May 30, 2021 · 9 min read
Filming locations and iconic destinations from: Bridgerton
The glamorous locations of Netflix’s Bridgerton offers a new way to see Britain. Stroll around a pleasure garden, call on a castle or take a carriage ride, as we uncover some of the new Bridgerton experiences available as part of your Dream Escape.
By Contista Media
May 30, 2021 · 9 min read
MEN IN KILTS INTERVIEW
If you could dream of the ultimate road trip in the Scottish Highlands what would it entail? Perhaps whiskyfuelled nights listening to tales of marauding Highland clans, tackling mountainous roads with wildlife obstacles and embracing adrenaline-pumping adventures on board a motorbike, kayak and even a tandem bike.
By Contista Media
Mar 5, 2021 · 11 min read
MEN IN KILTS INTERVIEW
If you could dream of the ultimate road trip in the Scottish Highlands what would it entail? Perhaps whiskyfuelled nights listening to tales of marauding Highland clans, tackling mountainous roads with wildlife obstacles and embracing adrenaline-pumping adventures on board a motorbike, kayak and even a tandem bike.
By Contista Media
Mar 5, 2021 · 11 min read
THE GREAT SEAN CONNERY
Arriving in the Great Depression, Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge Edinburgh on 25th August 1930 and, as a boy, saw his country enter the 2nd World War. He joined the Royal Navy in 1946, and was stationed at Portsmouth where he trained at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. By 18, and having reached 188cm, he already had an impressive physique honed through bodybuilding and he entered the Mr. Universe contest in 1950. His footballing skills also led to him being offered a contract by Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, which he was tempted to accept. He is on record as saying, “I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill at 30 and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves.”
By Essential Magazine
Dec 4, 2020 · 4 min read
THE GREAT SEAN CONNERY
Arriving in the Great Depression, Thomas Sean Connery was born in Fountainbridge Edinburgh on 25th August 1930 and, as a boy, saw his country enter the 2nd World War. He joined the Royal Navy in 1946, and was stationed at Portsmouth where he trained at the naval gunnery school and in an anti-aircraft crew. By 18, and having reached 188cm, he already had an impressive physique honed through bodybuilding and he entered the Mr. Universe contest in 1950. His footballing skills also led to him being offered a contract by Matt Busby, manager of Manchester United, which he was tempted to accept. He is on record as saying, “I realised that a top-class footballer could be over the hill at 30 and I was already 23. I decided to become an actor and it turned out to be one of my more intelligent moves.”
By Essential Magazine
Dec 4, 2020 · 4 min read
Thoreau in Winter
Winters in New England can be harsh and unforgiving with days, or even weeks, of below-freezing temperatures and with snowfalls that are often measured in feet. It’s a season when all but the heartiest of New Englanders hunker down, put on a few extra layers of flannel, crank the thermostat, and stay cozy and warm at home.
By Discover Concord MA
Dec 10, 2020 · 4 min read
Thoreau in Winter
Winters in New England can be harsh and unforgiving with days, or even weeks, of below-freezing temperatures and with snowfalls that are often measured in feet. It’s a season when all but the heartiest of New Englanders hunker down, put on a few extra layers of flannel, crank the thermostat, and stay cozy and warm at home.
By Discover Concord MA
Dec 10, 2020 · 4 min read
Home: Exploring the Life & Legacy of Loring W. Coleman
On a cold winter’s day in 1982, Loring Wilkins Coleman (1918-2015) embarked on one of his favorite activities: driving around Massachusetts to look at old barns and houses. On the recommendation of his son Andrew, Coleman went to the town of Sterling in search of a “superb grouping of buildings,” and struck gold. “It was indeed one of the most handsome New England farms I had ever seen,” recalled Coleman. It took ten days to complete a detailed pencil drawing of the farm buildings, but it wasn’t until 2003 that Coleman finished his painting of the view. By that point, all but one of the original buildings had been demolished and Coleman used his imagination to color in the details he remembered. He called the painting Home. “The title speaks for itself, for the painting represents the old farmhouses that still remain in New England and in my thoughts,” wrote Coleman in his autobiography, published only a few years before his death in 2015. Coleman’s paintings reflect a fascination with, and a sadness over, the changing landscape and ephemeral architecture of an agrarian Massachusetts.
By Discover Concord MA
Dec 10, 2020 · 6 min read
Home: Exploring the Life & Legacy of Loring W. Coleman
On a cold winter’s day in 1982, Loring Wilkins Coleman (1918-2015) embarked on one of his favorite activities: driving around Massachusetts to look at old barns and houses. On the recommendation of his son Andrew, Coleman went to the town of Sterling in search of a “superb grouping of buildings,” and struck gold. “It was indeed one of the most handsome New England farms I had ever seen,” recalled Coleman. It took ten days to complete a detailed pencil drawing of the farm buildings, but it wasn’t until 2003 that Coleman finished his painting of the view. By that point, all but one of the original buildings had been demolished and Coleman used his imagination to color in the details he remembered. He called the painting Home. “The title speaks for itself, for the painting represents the old farmhouses that still remain in New England and in my thoughts,” wrote Coleman in his autobiography, published only a few years before his death in 2015. Coleman’s paintings reflect a fascination with, and a sadness over, the changing landscape and ephemeral architecture of an agrarian Massachusetts.
By Discover Concord MA
Dec 10, 2020 · 6 min read